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04 January 2024
TotalErnegies kufanya tathmini ya fidia mradi wa bomba la Hoima hadi Tanga
Kampuni kubwa ya kimataifa ya nishati ya Ufaransa ya TotalEnergies inayo simamia mradi wa EACOP kufanya tathamini mpya ya fidia ya ardhi iliyochukua katika eneo litakapopita bomba la mafuta katika nchi za Uganda na Tanzania. Hayo yametolewa katika taarifa ya leo alhamisi tarehe 4 Januari 2024.
TotalEnergies To Review Land Buyouts In Contested Africa Projects
Work on the project is well underway, with drilling having begun in mid-2023 and production set for 2025
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French energy giant TotalEnergies on Thursday said it had launched a review of its land acquisition practices for controversial $10-billion projects in Uganda and Tanzania slammed by environmentalists.
TotalEnergies is pushing ahead with its Tilenga drilling project in Uganda and the 1,443-kilometre (897-mile) East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) to transport it to the coast in Tanzania in the face of opposition from activists and environmentalists.
"This mission will evaluate the land acquisition procedures implemented, the conditions for consultation, compensation and relocation of the populations concerned, and the grievance handling mechanism," the statement said, adding that it would submit its report by April.
Tilenga targets oil under the rich Murchison Falls nature reserve in western Uganda with a planned 419 wells, triggering fears for the region's fragile ecosystem among the people who live there and environmentalists.
Drilling began in mid-2023 and production is slated to begin in 2025.
TotalEnergies, which is working with Chinese oil company CNOOC on the project, says that its 6,400-hectare acquisition plan affects "19,140 households and communities owning or using plots of land and includes the relocation of 775 primary residences".
The project will see oil pumped from landlocked Uganda transported 1,443 kilometres (897 miles) to the coast of Tanzania along what will be the world's longest pipeline of its kind
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"To date, 98 percent of the households concerned have signed compensation agreements, 97 percent have received their compensation, and 98 percent of households to be relocated have taken possession of their new homes," the company added.
Resistance to the project has rallied opponents of fossil fuel development as well as conservationists and those fearing the effect on local populations.
Human Rights Watch called in July for the plans to be halted, saying in a report that it had already "devastated thousands of people’s livelihoods in Uganda".
The oilfield would "ultimately displace over 100,000 people," it charged.
Four environmental groups -- Darwin Climax Coalitions, Sea Shepherd France, Wild Legal and Stop EACOP-Stop Total in Uganda -- filed a criminal complaint in France in September accusing TotalEnergies of "ecocide".
A first case filed in 2019 was thrown out last year by a Paris court, while TotalEnergies says the Tanzania-based East African Court of Justice has also rejected a complaint.
Critics say the project -- which partly stretches into Murchison Falls National Park, a protected area -- threatens one of Africa's most fragile ecosystems and the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people
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Other aid groups and 26 individual Ugandans filed a further French civil case in June calling for "reparations".
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